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On 27/11/2021 at 14:26, Mindovermaster said:

I'll show you a full picture when I'm done setting this up, but for now..

 

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MinisForum EliteMini HX90 -barebone

-AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900HX, 8 Cores/16 Threads

2x WD Blue 1TB SSD

M.2 WD Black 1TB SSD

64GB (2x32GB) G-Skill Ripjaws 3200 So-DIMM DDR4

 

Some of you may say this is overkill, but I prefer the phrase "Go Big Or Go Home" Didn't want to go too much overboard.

what's your use case?

On 01/12/2021 at 18:09, ultimate99 said:

what's your use case?

I used to be a gamer, but don't do that anymore. So I don't need a bigarse GFX card.

 

I do a little video editing, but nothing heavy.

 

I run a lot of VM's, playing with different OS's. Reason I need the RAM.

On 01/12/2021 at 19:16, Mindovermaster said:

I run a lot of VM's, playing with different OS's. Reason I need the RAM.

I do the same, gotta have that ram.  Though, ran into a bottleneck on cpu, then switched to threadripper.

 

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Specs:

 

Case:  In-Win 925

Mobo:  Asus Rog Zenith II Extreme Alpha

Ram:  256 GB Corsair Vengeance

CPU:  Threadripper 3970x

Storage:  Samsung 970 EVO plus 2TB

Storage:  Sabrent 4TB Rocket x2

Storage:  Sabrent 2TB Rocket x2

PSU:  Corsair HX1200i

AIO cpu cooler:  Corsair H150i Elite Capellix

Fans:  Corsair QL120

Video: Titan XP.

 

Running ESXi 7 Update 3, with VCenter 7, using vmug advantage.

 

 

Yes, I know, my cable management is horrible, and I plan to fix it....

 

Currently using 83 GB ram, so yeah, ram is needed.

 

Need to enable TPM, I guess, to test encrypted drives and running windows 11, using vmware horizon....

 

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  • 3 weeks later...

And as you can see.  Yes!! I did go with an AIO.  In my defense, I couldn't pass up the price. Newegg just gave me to good of a deal.  So far, so good.   I'm also using,  be-quiet RGB fans on the radiator.  7 fans, 10 if you count the power supply and the two on the GPU.  The only in-take is on the front.  All the other fans blow all the hot air out.  The case came with an RGB controller. And be-quiet  came with a controller, but I didn't have to use it.

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On 26/12/2021 at 00:08, KruptedSeed said:

My flash was on/ 

That would explain it. LOL

 

Hey AIO's are great! I don't use them anymore, but I used to earlier.

On 26/12/2021 at 00:25, Mindovermaster said:

That would explain it. LOL

 

Hey AIO's are great! I don't use them anymore, but I used to earlier.

I'm going to give it a try. I'm really loving my new build. I'm going to clean my old one up. an my brother said, " he what's it".  Waste not.  LOL!!!    If you look at the first pic I sent. And the one I just sent. You can see I improved on my cable management.

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Just finished building this new PC. The colors I have in the box are very hard to capture on camera, but they're the below colors:

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Specs:

  • NZXT H510 Flow Case
  • NZXT B550 N7 Motherboard
  • 2x Corsair LL fans 120mm (exhaust)
  • 2x Corsair LL fans 140mm (intake)
  • AMD Ryzen 5600X
  • Noctua NH-L9a-AM4 Chromax
  • 4x 8GB DDR4 Corsair Dominator Ram
  • 1TB M.2 NVMe 980 Pro SSD
  • Asus Dual RX 6600 GPU
  • Lian Li Strimmers (8-pin, 24-pin)
  • Corsair RM 850x PSU

 

On 11/01/2022 at 20:21, Emn1ty said:

Just finished building this new PC. The colors I have in the box are very hard to capture on camera, but they're the below colors:

Specs:

  • NZXT H510 Flow Case
  • NZXT B550 N7 Motherboard
  • 2x Corsair LL fans 120mm (exhaust)
  • 2x Corsair LL fans 140mm (intake)
  • AMD Ryzen 5600X
  • Noctua NH-L9a-AM4 Chromax
  • 4x 8GB DDR4 Corsair Dominator Ram
  • 1TB M.2 NVMe 980 Pro SSD
  • Asus Dual RX 6600 GPU
  • Lian Li Strimmers (8-pin, 24-pin)
  • Corsair RM 850x PSU

 

That looks awesome, man! Glad your happy :)

On 11/01/2022 at 18:21, Emn1ty said:

Just finished building this new PC. The colors I have in the box are very hard to capture on camera, but they're the below colors:

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Specs:

  • NZXT H510 Flow Case
  • NZXT B550 N7 Motherboard
  • 2x Corsair LL fans 120mm (exhaust)
  • 2x Corsair LL fans 140mm (intake)
  • AMD Ryzen 5600X
  • Noctua NH-L9a-AM4 Chromax
  • 4x 8GB DDR4 Corsair Dominator Ram
  • 1TB M.2 NVMe 980 Pro SSD
  • Asus Dual RX 6600 GPU
  • Lian Li Strimmers (8-pin, 24-pin)
  • Corsair RM 850x PSU

 

An update, I swapped the GPU out for a nicer one. Considering I paid basically $0 for the parts due to some Christmas money I decided to go with a PowerColor Red Devil 6900XT Ultimate. It looks quite nice with the colors matching!

 

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On 17/01/2022 at 22:45, Emn1ty said:

An update, I swapped the GPU out for a nicer one. Considering I paid basically $0 for the parts due to some Christmas money I decided to go with a PowerColor Red Devil 6900XT Ultimate. It looks quite nice with the colors matching!

 

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Bought your gpu at Micro Center?

  • 1 month later...

Some changes coming to the PC specs in the next week or so... trading out the PSU to a Corsair RM850W, and the EVGA RTX 2070 XC to an Asus ROG Strix 3070Ti.

Specs:

 

Case: Corsair 4000D
Mobo: Asus ROG Strix B550-A Gaming

CPU: AMD Ryzen R5 5600X

RAM: 32gb (4x8) 3200Mhz
AOI: Corsair H115i RGB Platinum

GPU: EVGA RTX 2070 XC
Storage: 2 x 1TB Samsung 980 Pro NVMe, 2 x 1TB Samsung 870 QVO
PSU: Corsair RM650x

Mouse: Logitech Pro X Superlight wireless

Keyboard: Logitech G213
Monitor: Gigabyte M34WQ 34" Ultrawide with built-in KVM for easy work > play

Speakers: Audioengine A2+

 

All fans swapped to Corsair LL120's for uniformity.

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On 18/03/2022 at 18:28, DoctorD said:

R8 on the left and R10 on the right, scary part is I spent less than 500 on each

Not too shabby :) 

 

You buy them on sale, or are they second hand?

  • 3 weeks later...

Too poor to get a graphics card.

 

Specs:

Ryzen 5 4650G

A520 gigabyte mobo

2x8gb ddr4-3600 cl17

1x Kingston a2000 500gb,

1x crucial bx500 480gb

1x crucial mx500 1tb

 Lian li o11 dynamic mini

Lian li Galahad 240 cooler with sl120

Extra 3x antec prizm 120

Lian li sp750 PSU

 

Cable management is actually terrible (done in a rush)

But thankfully it's too dark to notice.

 

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I usually HAVE the Tower RGB disabled, too annoying and distracting since it's right next to monitor.

 

MOBO: MSI MPG z490 Gaming Plus
CPU: Intel Core i9-10900K
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8GB GDDR6 RGB
CPU Cooling: Dragon Liquid Cooler 240
Ram: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB DDR4 3600
Case: MSI MPG SEKIRA 500X ARGB
Drives: 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD, 2TB Samsung 980 PRO Gen4 PCIe NVMe SSD, 7 x 1TB SSD, 2TB HDD

OS: Windows 11 Pro

Keyboard: Razer - Huntsman V2 Analog Wired Gaming Opto-Mechanical RGB
Mouse: Logitech G502 Hero RGB
Mousepad: Razer Goliathus Extended Chroma RGB
Headset: Logitech G PRO X Gaming Headset
Speakers: Razer Nommo Chroma RGB

Display: LG 34" 4k Ergo UltraWide QHD Monitor

 

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On 26/04/2022 at 13:55, o0o said:

Keyboard: Razer - Huntsman V2 Analog Wired Gaming Opto-Mechanical RGB
Mouse: Logitech G502 Hero RGB

I have the same Mouse + Keyboard setup, but mine is the BlackWidow Elite (Orange).

  • 4 months later...

Hello,

An update to my system build from 2019.

A picture of the motherboard, with CPU (Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste applied) and first pair of DIMMs installed:

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Close-up on the thermal paste application, and one of the DIMMs:

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With the heat sink installed:

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And preliminarily installed in the case to check fit and make sure there weren't any issues with clearances, overheating and so forth:

 

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I subsequently re-routed some of the cables and the video card support.

Case:  Fractal Design R6 with USB-C
CPUIntel® Xeon® W-2195 Processor (24.75M Cache, 2.30 GHz)
GPUASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX™ 3080 OC Edition 12GB GDDR6X (LHR)
HDD: 3 × 10 TB WD Red, 1 × 18TB WD Red Pro
Heat Sink: Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black
MotherboardASUS WS C422 SAGE/10G
RAM:  4 × SK hynix 64GB PC4-21300 2666Mhz 4Rx4 ECC LR-DIMMs (P/N: HMAA8GL7CPR4N-VK)
SSD: 1 × 1TB Samsung 980 PRO NVMe SSD with heat sink, 1 × 2TB Samsung 980 PRO NVMe SSD, 1 × OWC Accelsior 8M2 (populated with 8 × 2TB Intel 660p NVMe SSD)
PSU:  EVGA SuperNOVA 1000W
Thermal Paste:  Arctic Silver 5

There is a full build/parts list at https://pcpartpicker.com/b/BXPV3C.

 

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky
 

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